From January to November, China's online retail sales reached 12.4585 trillion yuan, an increase of 4.2% over the same period last year.

CTOnews.com, December 15, according to statistics released by the National Bureau of Statistics today, online retail sales nationwide totaled 12.4585 trillion yuan from January to November, an increase of 4.2 percent over the same period last year.

Among them, the online retail sales of physical goods totaled 10.8098 trillion yuan, an increase of 6.4 percent, accounting for 27.1 percent of the total retail sales of social consumer goods. Among the online retail sales of physical goods, food, clothing and household goods increased by 15.1 percent, 3.4 percent and 6.1 percent respectively.

CTOnews.com learned that total retail sales of consumer goods include online retail sales of physical goods, but do not include online retail sales of non-physical goods. Among them, online retail sales refers to the sum of retail sales of goods and services realized through public online trading platforms (including self-built websites and third-party platforms). Goods and services include physical goods and non-physical goods (such as virtual goods, service goods, etc.).

Overall, retail sales of consumer goods totaled 3.8615 trillion yuan in November, down 5.9 percent from a year earlier. Of this total, retail sales of consumer goods other than cars totaled 3.4828 trillion yuan, down 6.1 percent. From January to November, retail sales of consumer goods totaled 39.919 trillion yuan, down 0.1 percent from the same period last year. Of this total, retail sales of consumer goods other than cars totaled 35.849 trillion yuan, down 0.2 percent.